Tex-Mex for personal touch

AUTHOR(S)

Chater, Amanda

PUB. DATE

September 2000

SOURCE

FoodService Director;09/15/2000, Vol. 13 Issue 9, p90

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Offers a look at the Tex-Mex food service operation at some United States universities. Alfred State College in New York; Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee; Middlebury College in Vermont; Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.

ACCESSION #

3610533

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